HISTORY
According to Boorstin, this was the first "standard" people looked to in order to measure time.
What is the moon?
(See The Discoverers, p.4)
According to Leithart in Heroes of the City of Man, Christians who read ancient literature are standing in what location, and looking at what location?
What are Jerusalem and Athens?
(See Leithart, p. 13)
The author of the Pentateuch.
Who is Moses?
Write down the commutative property, the associative property, and the distributive property of addition.
Commutative Property: a + b = b + a
Associative Property: (a+b)+c = a+(b+c)
Distributive Property: a(b+c) = ab + ac
Name the five elements of every sentence.
What are: subject; verb; starts with a capital letter; has an end mark; makes sense.
This explorer traveled from Europe to China on a journey that lasted twenty-four years.
Who is Marco Polo?
(Boorstin, p.134)
The name Odysseus uses when introducing himself to Cyclops (*Double point bonus if you can remember the Greek!)
What is "Nobody"?
Greek: ou tis, "not anybody"
(See Leithart, p.188)
Complete the quote:
"If there is a moral law, there must be..."
What is, "a moral law-Giver"?
Name the force acting through a distance that is in the direction of the force.
Double point bonus: What is the formula that describes this force, and what unit of measure is used?
What is work?
Formula: W = F x D; measured in N-m, called joules
TRIPLE BONUS: Answer the following:
A force of 42.0 N is applied in the --> direction for 4.00 s as the block moves 12.0 m. How much work is done? (Saxon, p.65)
English translation for
"Veni, Vidi, Vici."
Bonus: Name to whom this phrase is attributed.
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
Attributed to Julius Caesar.
This man believed in the "divine symmetry of the universe."
Who was Kepler?
(Boorstin, p.339)
Name the four authors of Theogony, Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and Oedipus Rex.
Who are Hesiod (Theogony), Homer (Illiad and Odyssey), Virgil (Aeneid), Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)?
The system of belief (or "-ism") that believes God is beyond good and evil.
What is Pantheism?
(See Mere Christianity, p.36)
At sea level, the attractive gravitational force exerted by the earth on a mass of 1 kilogram has a magnitude of...
Double point bonus: Explain the derivation of the unit used to measure this force. TRIPLE point bonus: Write the formula for the Law of Gravitation.
What is 9.81 Newtons?
The newton is the unit of force in the metric system and is derived as a kg-m/s2.
F = G (m1m2/r2)
(Saxon, pp. 1, 21,172)
"Never let a fool kiss you, nor a kiss fool you," is an example of this kind of literary scheme.
What is chiasmus?
Other than Aristotle and Ptolemy, this man is considered the most influential ancient writer in science.
Who was Galen?
(Boorstin, p.345)
The two Latin words used to describe "devotion to one's duty" and "the opposition to fate."
What are pietas and furor?
(See Leithart, p. 221, 222)
Name two different genres of Psalms as described by Jacobson and Jacobson in Invitation to the Pslams.
What are Psalms of Lament, Praise, Trust, Thanksgiving; Royal Psalms, Enthronement Psalms, Creation Psalms, and Historical Psalms?
Name of a famous geometric theorem used to calculate the length of a triangle's hypotenuse and its equation.
(*TRIPLE point bonus: Give the name of the formula that results when this theorem appears as an algebraic statement. Extra 200 points if you can write the equation of the algebraic formula!)
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
c2 = a2 + b2
What is the Distance Formula?
D = "sq root of" (x2 - x1)2 + (y2 - y1)2
List the three modes of persuasion (in Latin and English).
Logos (appeal to logic); Pathos (appeal to emotion); Ethos (appeal to character/ethical reputation)
This man (answer 1) wrote this work (answer 2) to answer the question of whether Rome would have fallen if it had not been weakened by Christianity.
Who is Augustine?
What is The City of God?
(Boorstin, p. 569)
The two Greek phrases (puns) hidden in the name "Oedipus".
What are "swollen foot"
and "know where"?
(See Leithart, p.318 and 326)
The four gardens discussed by Ravi Zacharias in Jesus Among Other Gods and their associated meanings.
What are the Garden of Eden (text), the "garden" of the wilderness (context), the Garden of Gethsemane (contest), and the Garden of the Tomb (contrast)?
What we call an arrangement of the members of a set in a definite order without repetition.
What is a permutation?
TRIPLE POINT BONUS FOR CORRECTLY ANSWERING:
How many 3-letter signs can be made from the letters in the word NUMERAL if no repetition is permitted?
(p.271)
List the Five Common Topics and the Five Canons of Rhetoric.
DOUBLE point bonus for listing the Canons of Rhetoric in Latin.
Five Common Topics: Definition; Comparison; Relationship; Circumstance; Testimony/Authority
Five Canons of Rhetoric: Invention (inventio); Arrangement (dispositio); Style (elocutio); Memory (memoria); Delivery (pronuntiatio)